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Is Digg worth submitting to anymore?

by DavidTheMavin
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I'd love a decisive answer represented by facts for this one

I've lost all my power digging abilities since I moved out of the 'green' markets, so the traffic and backlinks that come from a pop stories while good, are going to take a lot of work to attain.

What's your opinion? Any worth to submitting to digg since Google devalued the links, and then Digg put the stories into a flash frame thingy?
#anymore #digg #submitting #worth
  • Profile picture of the author Christa_Regalado
    I've stopped submitting to Digg. There was this controversy in the past about page ranking of related topics among members. I actually read the article here in the forum. I think it was in the PIPS section. You may want to do a search on that.
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  • Profile picture of the author nicholasb
    I think it still helps you get indexed quickly, I have been testing it out since the switch, and I still get indexed in under 4 hours
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    • Profile picture of the author DavidTheMavin
      Originally Posted by nicholasb View Post

      I think it still helps you get indexed quickly, I have been testing it out since the switch, and I still get indexed in under 4 hours
      Does it help more then your average CMS pinging pingomatic? Or is it basically the equivalent of it do you think?
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  • Profile picture of the author MichaelHiles
    IMHO, Google does still like Digg. I see things showing up pretty fast actually.
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  • Profile picture of the author ramrod0403
    Digg still works. People still use it even just for generating traffic. The trick is to get indexed fast. Does anybody have a different opinion on this? I'd like to hear it..I might be wasting my time without me knowing..lmao
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  • Profile picture of the author Morrow
    Originally Posted by DavidTheMavin View Post

    I'd love a decisive answer represented by facts for this one

    I've lost all my power digging abilities since I moved out of the 'green' markets, so the traffic and backlinks that come from a pop stories while good, are going to take a lot of work to attain.

    What's your opinion? Any worth to submitting to digg since Google devalued the links, and then Digg put the stories into a flash frame thingy?
    I dont submit there no more. Digg just isnt very effective at the moment
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  • Profile picture of the author Odhinn
    I think Digg is still very worthwhile, and the fact that you're asking this question proves it. It's a much smaller playing field with a lot of marketers who won't post there any more. A smaller playing field means that there's less competition.

    Even if the links are devalued, it takes you what, 2 minutes to throw something up there?
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    • Profile picture of the author Nathan Hangen
      Well since Digg keeps all the juice (for the most part), I'm rethinking my strategy. I'm also going to use breakout frames if I do submit.
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    • Profile picture of the author DavidTheMavin
      Originally Posted by Odhinn View Post

      Even if the links are devalued, it takes you what, 2 minutes to throw something up there?
      It takes a while to shout to 1000 friends, and these days (like I said in the OP) my friends are pretty bad so I only get a few dozen diggs usually, which means compiling whole new batches of good friends which takes weeks. I have a niche account that's only got about 200 friends and diggs are 10% on that one, so I think I'll keep working on it for a bit longer.
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  • Profile picture of the author BubbaGump
    IMHO, no.

    Digg FAIL.

    All my DIGGs did little for my campaigns.
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  • Profile picture of the author John Atkins
    Originally Posted by DavidTheMavin View Post

    I'd love a decisive answer represented by facts for this one

    I've lost all my power digging abilities since I moved out of the 'green' markets, so the traffic and backlinks that come from a pop stories while good, are going to take a lot of work to attain.

    What's your opinion? Any worth to submitting to digg since Google devalued the links, and then Digg put the stories into a flash frame thingy?

    Why not? Submitting a site to digg will only take 2 minutes of your life.

    Digg was much better in the old days, but it is still worth it to use. It's better to have an extra link than to have nothing
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    • Profile picture of the author Nathan Hangen
      Originally Posted by a-marketing View Post

      Why not? Submitting a site to digg will only take 2 minutes of your life.

      Digg was much better in the old days, but it is still worth it to use. It's better to have an extra link than to have nothing
      That's the thing...with the Diggbar, all links point to Digg, not your site.
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  • Profile picture of the author DavidTheMavin
    I suppose it's worth it for the basic fact that you'll get another listing in google:

    http://www.google.com/search?&q="how+to+do+PPC"

    My digg is #2, my blog post is #9

    But everyone else should quit! ;-)
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  • Profile picture of the author Josh Gould
    Digg is tricky if you're in a tiny niche/not-so-mainstream-market, unless you're just in it for links... I personally try using Digg for traffic.

    I've been thinking... if I make a blog post featuring a picture (or animation) of Obama petting bacon covered kitties, theoretically it should be guaranteed front page material. :p
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  • Profile picture of the author sogeshirts
    The combination of digg taking all the link juice and digg's penchant for banning people for a variety of weak reasons made digg not worth it for me.
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  • Profile picture of the author domaingamer
    Digg is great for indexing, but for link building there are way better options. Unless you can get something to the first page, but that's a lot of effort.
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  • Profile picture of the author MarkOwens
    Digg is good for traffic, a lot better in my opinion. Not the traditional way of just spamming it though, think outside the box
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  • Profile picture of the author ttwee
    I still like digg, it's showing up my site rather fast!
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  • Profile picture of the author markvurnum
    Yep, Digg still works for me , I can get a new website picked up in a few hours and the Digg stays in google for sometime. Still works well for longtail keywords.

    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author DirectoryKing
    I still use diggs, it is still a quick source of generating instant traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author DavidTheMavin
    I also figure it would be dumb to waste something I've spent so long building:

    • 11,814 Dugg
    • 291 Comments
    • 182 Submitted
    • 11 Made Popular
    • 6% Popular Ratio
    • 0 Friends Invited
    • Profile views 5,960
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  • Profile picture of the author DavidTheMavin
    Good read here: The Growth Of Framebars & Kevin Rose On The DiggBar
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  • Profile picture of the author hrhbusiness
    digg is very worthwhile... i still use digg submission and getting a noticeable change in Rankings for my blogs. also some good pretty website came into the market but mind one thing digg is digg.
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